François Denuit
François Denuit is scientific collaborator at the Institute of European Studies (IEE) and at the Centre d’étude de la vie politique (CEVIPOL) of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He is also an associate researcher at the ecological think tank ETOPIA.
François got his PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick (UoW) and in Political and Social Sciences from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 2019, as a joint degree under the GEM-Erasmus mundus framework. He worked under the supervision of Prof. Amandine Crespy (ULB) and Prof. Edward Page (UoW). He has also worked with Prof. Robert van der Veen at the Univsersiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) as visiting scholar.
His doctoral thesis is entitled "Fighting Poverty in the European Union. An Assessment of the Prospects for a European Universal Basic Income (EUBI)" (available on this platform).
Since October 2019, he also works as a political advisor on social, economic and monetary affairs for MEP Philippe Lamberts, Co-president of the group of the Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.
François' research interests focus on minimum income protection, universal basic income, theories of social justice, Social Europe, European economic and monetary affairs, political ecology, the European green deal, and postgrowth economics.
Address: Brussels, Belgium
François got his PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick (UoW) and in Political and Social Sciences from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 2019, as a joint degree under the GEM-Erasmus mundus framework. He worked under the supervision of Prof. Amandine Crespy (ULB) and Prof. Edward Page (UoW). He has also worked with Prof. Robert van der Veen at the Univsersiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) as visiting scholar.
His doctoral thesis is entitled "Fighting Poverty in the European Union. An Assessment of the Prospects for a European Universal Basic Income (EUBI)" (available on this platform).
Since October 2019, he also works as a political advisor on social, economic and monetary affairs for MEP Philippe Lamberts, Co-president of the group of the Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.
François' research interests focus on minimum income protection, universal basic income, theories of social justice, Social Europe, European economic and monetary affairs, political ecology, the European green deal, and postgrowth economics.
Address: Brussels, Belgium
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But what is this proposal exactly about? Why is the EUBI a worthwhile policy? Is it feasible? What are the potential steps towards its implementation?
This article aims to clarify the contours of the debate and to assess to what extent the idea may constitute a promising policy vehicle for a more ambitious “Social Europe”.
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The central claim of the study posits that there are strong reasons to consider a partial EUBI as a desirable instrument for EU-wide poverty alleviation. Under this scenario, the EU works as a complementary welfare layer offering systemic support to its Member States’ welfare models whilst respecting the diversity of national social protection arrangements. At the same time, as an instrument of pan-European solidarity, the EUBI provides substance to EU social citizenship.
The method used is problem-oriented and interdisciplinary, combining insights from political theory, political economy and EU studies writ large. After having layed out the various dimensions underpinning the problem of poverty in the EU and clarified the contours of the solution under scrutiny, the thesis confronts the EUBI with a series of challenges, ranging from normative issues associated with the unconditionality of the basic income and the pursuit of social justice in the EU, to the institutional hurdles pertaining to the legal feasibility of the proposal, via the macroeconomic difficulties related to the diversity of interdependent economies.
Overall, this contribution examines an idea which remains unexplored in EU studies and proposes a new approach to European anti-poverty strategy. It also bridges the gap between EU social policy and basic income literatures, beyond established boundaries of research compartmentalisation. As such, it prepares the ground for further fine-tuned research in the areas covered by this comprehensive multi-dimensional analysis.
But what is this proposal exactly about? Why is the EUBI a worthwhile policy? Is it feasible? What are the potential steps towards its implementation?
This article aims to clarify the contours of the debate and to assess to what extent the idea may constitute a promising policy vehicle for a more ambitious “Social Europe”.
The central claim of the study posits that there are strong reasons to consider a partial EUBI as a desirable instrument for EU-wide poverty alleviation. Under this scenario, the EU works as a complementary welfare layer offering systemic support to its Member States’ welfare models whilst respecting the diversity of national social protection arrangements. At the same time, as an instrument of pan-European solidarity, the EUBI provides substance to EU social citizenship.
The method used is problem-oriented and interdisciplinary, combining insights from political theory, political economy and EU studies writ large. After having layed out the various dimensions underpinning the problem of poverty in the EU and clarified the contours of the solution under scrutiny, the thesis confronts the EUBI with a series of challenges, ranging from normative issues associated with the unconditionality of the basic income and the pursuit of social justice in the EU, to the institutional hurdles pertaining to the legal feasibility of the proposal, via the macroeconomic difficulties related to the diversity of interdependent economies.
Overall, this contribution examines an idea which remains unexplored in EU studies and proposes a new approach to European anti-poverty strategy. It also bridges the gap between EU social policy and basic income literatures, beyond established boundaries of research compartmentalisation. As such, it prepares the ground for further fine-tuned research in the areas covered by this comprehensive multi-dimensional analysis.